Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100] | | From | Gianni Tedesco <> | | Date | 01 Aug 2002 13:00:15 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 22:24, Nico Schottelius wrote: > Hello! > > I recently tried the e100 driver and was happy that it reports > if there is a connection and speed and so on. > > But should these informations not be reported through /proc-fs ? > I think this would make it easier for programs to monitor connection > status. We could even have a small red/green light in the KDE panel > to display connection status for different cards.
AFAIK this information is already available for ethernet cards with an MII tranciever via a bunch of ioctl()'s. Google for mii-diag.c for an example.
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